Low latency is a key contributor to customer satisfaction with smart home camera skills. This blog describes 10 tips to help you optimize the AWS Lambda function and related services for your smart home camera skill.

With hundreds of thousands of monthly users, customers say Question of the Day is a skill that they “take the time to play every single day.” Learn how developer Joel Wilson is taking his voice game to the next level with in-skill purchasing.

We are excited to announce that now anyone can create and publish an Alexa skill on the India Alexa Skills Store, using the Alexa Skill Blueprints. Skill Blueprints enable you to create and share customized Alexa skills simply by filling in the blanks to one of the dozens of easy-to-use templates. Now, anyone, even with no coding skills, can publish skills created using Alexa Skill Blueprints to the Alexa Skills Store in US and India for customers to discover, use, and review.

In the past year, we’ve introduced name-free skill interaction for Alexa, which allows customers to invoke skills without mentioning them by name. Y. B. Kim explains how we add new skills to the skill selection model without causing "catastrophic forgetting."